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"The boss assigned Jim Lineer and Tracy Thomason to throw a railroad spur across the desert into the New Mexico coal fields. That was back in the days when the rails crawled wherever there was a chance of favorable traffic-which meant that often the toughest problems faced by railroad engineers were posed by nature. Top problem of them all was water. It was water that figured principally in the differences between Lineer, who knew railroading and knew the desert, and Thomason, who talked fast and easy and was engaged to the boss' daughter. Lineer wanted to bring water the hard, and sure, way-from the mountains. Thomason thought wells could be drilled, and Thomason got the nod. Lineer went along, doing the best he could to get the line built. But things began to go wrong - with the water, with the way things were between Lineer and Barbara and Thomason. And there was also the simmering feud between the Wares and the Nyes, who dominated the country through which the road must pass. War was inevitable, and when it came nobody was suprised - except the losers"--Preliminary page [1].
Type
Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date
[1948]
Call number
644068
Creator
Pearce, Dick (1909-1990)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance
Gift of the Estate of Donald Duke, 2015.
Dimensions
20 cm
Associated people
Duke, Donald, (1929-2010,)
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